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A comprehensive summary of contradictory viewpoints of ‘warmer is more arid’ versus ‘warmer is less arid’ that arise from different interpretations of aridity changes, and provides a road map for reconciling such disparities. Article Google Scholar Swann, A. L. S. Plants and drought in a...
Drought is a natural hazard, and is essentially a temporal anomaly from normal conditions. Aridity, on the other hand, is a climatic feature, and is a constant imbalance in the water availability consisting of low average annual precipitation, with high spatial and temporal variability, resulting...
Using observed data from 1,934 Global Historical Climate Network (GHCN) sites across the US, we show that conclusions based on long climate records can substantially bias assessment of drought severity. Bias emerges by assuming that conditions from the early and mid 20th century are as likely to...
Sustainable agriculture must enhance the farmer’s quality of life. As the word connotes, agriculture must ‘sustain’ a quality life for the farmer. This means it should improve the farmer’s living conditions, not just allow the farmer to survive on a day to day basis. He should have en...
NDVI-based methods best serve as an after-effect indicator of a drought and may be outdated when the focus must be the real time monitoring of drought conditions. The LST is a good indicator of the energy balance between the earth's surface processes on both a regional and a global scale...
Flash drought creates complex challenges for drought mitigation and early warning due to their rapid intensification of drought conditions. Because of rapid drought intensification, the lead time to impacts (e.g., agricultural yield loss, wildfires, heatwaves) is notably reduced compared to slower-dev...
Drought is a frequent and worldwide disaster causing huge losses in agriculture and damages in natural ecosystems every year. Precise assessment and predic
In addition, drought tolerance index has been reported to be a reliable parameter for assessing crop tolerance to water-deficit conditions. Therefore, the objectives of this study were to evaluate the drought tolerance index for plant growth habit, plant maturity, flowering time, 100-seed weight, ...
Flash droughts are a recently recognized type of extreme event distinguished by sudden onset and rapid intensification of drought conditions with severe impacts. They unfold on subseasonal-to-seasonal timescales (weeks to months), presenting a new challenge for the surge of interest in improving subsea...